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    hatred behind‚ I’d still be in prison.” In today’s society‚ an issue exists with too many inmates occupying prisons. Many of these inmates in prisons do not get freed with the same ideas as Nelson Mandela. The solution for this issue is to put inmates to use for the public and only use prisons as holding stations for inmates. Such uses include entertainment‚ military‚ and public services. By forcing inmates to serve as a use for the public‚ inmates will leave prison with the idea that they will change

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    China's population

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    china’s population has changed over time? China’s population is at once its greatest asset as well as its most significant challenge. This is as true today as the twenty-first century begins as it has been for much of China’s history. Although there are not absolutely reliable historical census numbers for China‚ certain patterns emerge as one examines China’s imperial demographic path from 60 million people two thousand years ago passing the one billion mark in recent times. China is world`s most

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    Population Determinants

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    Nations Population Fund (2007)‚ “In 2008‚ for the first time in history‚ more than half of the world’s population will be living in towns and cities. By 2030 this number will swell to almost 5 billion‚ with urban growth concentrated in Africa and Asia.” There are many factors that affect the increase or decrease of a population. Common factors include birthrate‚ medical advances‚ productivity‚ and so on. There have been a lot of debates and discussions as to whether an increase in population is good

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    Counselling In Prisons

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    Elizabeth Zoccole Are Counseling Program Available in Prisons of Various Security Levels? Introduction and Abstract With respect to the topic of drug and alcohol awareness programs being available in state‚ federal or local prisons‚ the five articles that are stated below contain relevant and statistical information. Per the Bureau of Justice Statistics‚ 3 out 4 State and 4 out 5 Federal prisoners may be categorized as alcohol or drug involved offenders. If such programs are put in place

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    Prison Environment

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    Prison Environment Jennifer O’Neal CJS 230 Jean O’Gallagher July 21‚ 2011 Prison is a cramped‚ confined‚ and sometimes dangerous environment. There are prison rules (prison code) and for the majority of the prisons there are inmate rules (inmate code). When prison rules are broken‚ inmates are charged accordingly with reprimands. When inmate code is broken inmates are subject to attack by other inmates‚ which will lead to injury or possibly death. In prison‚ there is no privacy. Inmates are

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    Prison overcrowding

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    California Prison Overcrowding December 16th‚ 2013 Prison Overcrowding in California Alarming issues that causes society to stir up continue to expand every day. Some of these issuesinclude the educational system‚ existing healthcare laws‚ unemployment and economic matters‚and the water crisis… all of which are major problems in California. One major problem‚ however‚ is often ignored. Over the past two to three decades‚ California’s prison population has grown by 750 percent (“California’s

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    Racial Stereotypes

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    Racial prejudice was defined by Allport ‚ one of the first researchers in psychology to investigate the issue‚ as "an aversive or hostile attitude towards a person who belongs to a group‚ simply because he or she belongs to that group‚ and is therefore presumed to have the objectionable qualities ascribed to that group. It is an antipathy based on a faulty and inflexible generalization" (Allport‚ 1954). Racial prejudice exists on 3 levels: behavioral‚ cognitive and affective. The actual discrimination

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    The Population Problem

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    The Population Problem Two hundred years ago‚ Thomas Malthus‚ in An Essay on the Principle of Population‚ reached the conclusion that the number of people in the world will increase exponentially‚ while the ability to feed these people will only increase arithmetically (21). Current evidence shows that this theory may not be far from the truth. For example‚ between 1950 and 1984‚ the total amount of grain produced more than doubled‚ much more than the increase in population in those 34 years.

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    Prison Education

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    Undergraduate Research (NCUR) 2009 University of Wisconsin La-Crosse La-Crosse‚ Wisconsin April 16 - 18‚ 2009 Prison Culture‚ Education‚ and Recidivism Rates Caleb L. Fry and Lauren T. Rios Department of Anthropology Lake Tahoe Community College One College Drive South Lake Tahoe‚ California 96150 USA Faculty Advisor: Daryl G. Frazetti Abstract Given the number of inmates in the prison system and the high level of recidivism‚ it is important to seek out possible solutions to this growing problem

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    Prison Reforms

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    the United States Prison population has grown past beyond what it can afford. Adult correctional systems supervised an estimated 6‚851‚000 persons at yearend 2014‚ about 52‚200 fewer offenders than at yearend 2013(2015 Kaeble‚ Glaze‚ Tsoutis‚ Minton) Christian Henrichson‚ Ruth Delaney researchers’ discovered that the cost to taxpayer for maintaining prisons in about 40 states was $39 billion. One of the great costs was Hospital and other health care for the prison population which was $335 million

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